Monday, July 21, 2008

Saturday, June 7, 2008

We are home from Chicago Children's, Z looks great and has done wonderful. The hardest part was the wait but with so many Dr's working on him we did get reports as each Dr finished. I was able to carry him to the O.R. and inside they let me stay until he was asleep, it was hard kissing him good bye. Dental was done first and everything went well, they had to pull one tooth (he had an extra) and put caps on 2 back molars and a few fillings. The ENT called to tell us that she put in larger tubes that should last 2 years! One of his tubes had come out and the other was 3/4 the way out. We talked to the Urologist in recovery, and everything went well and when the bandage comes off Z will look like every other circumcised boy. We talked to Dr Corcoran (plastic surgeon) before we went to the recovery room. She was not able to do all that she wanted, she explained that Z must of had a large asymmetrical bilateral cleft. She thinks that they did try to close the palate in China and because of the size it had opened. Good news his soft palate repair in China was great. She didn’t attach all of the lip muscles because she had opened up so much in order to close the palate and repair his nose. He does look great. The bad news comes today; we have a fistula from behind his front teeth into his nose. I’ll be calling the Dr in the morning. I’ve heard of fistulas closing and please pray that this one will.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Tomorrow morning at 5:20 am, we drive to Chicago Children's for surgery. They'll redo Z's lip as the muscles aren't attached, fix his nose and close his hard palate. The dentist will come and do his teeth and the urologist will repair his buried penis - also the ENT will clean his ears and check his tubes. Surgery 5 1/2 hours and that's with urology and the dentist working at the same time.

We have been told that we will be coming home Friday morning. The cleft Dr will be sending us home with Motrin and the urologist with Tylenol with codeine.Z will be on a soft food diet for 2 weeks, that's soft food as in anything he can drink out of a cup, no straws and no spoons.

Urologist says Z can be active when he feels like it, but no bike riding, no climbing, no horse play and anything else an almost 5 year old boy does for 2 weeks.

Other adoptive families have survived and we will to, although Dad has his doubts.

Chicago

China

New Day

In October 2005 we prayed for this little boy to find his forever family

Z's picture from New Day LuoYang site, were he is listed as Jacob

The referral pictures we received from W.A.C.P. October 28, 2006

Z is 12 months old LR, 15 Months old LL, and 18 months old in the top pictures

Z November '06

In November Z was taken to LuoYang CWI to update his file, he is 90 cm and 15 kg

Z March '07

Happy 4th Birthday Z

Z with his foster family looking at his forever famliy

God's hand

* In October '05 while we waited for Y's referral from China, I went to the New Day website and prayed that each of the children would find their forever family.

* This past October (06) I read a post on the waiting child China list about a 3 year old boy that needed a family, he was listed with WACAP. When we received his information I knew he was our son but DH needed more time, he couldn't see how we could afford another adoption and we don't have the space ( he was right about the money, we had only been home 8 months - I had no answer only faith but I did convince him that 3 could sleep in 10 X 10 room if we had a set of bunk beds).

* We prayed about it and we soon both knew that Z was our son. We requested that WACAP put a hold on his file, while we finished up the paper work. I asked on the Luoyang Yahoo list if anyone was going to the orphanage and if they could please get a current picture of Z, his referral picture was when he was 18 months old and he was now over 3.

* We heard back from the family at the orphanage that Z was in foster care. Later that day we received an email from Mikethe director of the New Day Foster Home Luoyang branch that Z might be in New Day Luoyang foster care.

*Z is listed as Jacob; our son is one of the children that I had prayed to find their forever family the year before.